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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As the provision of paediatric cardiology services is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days will he please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Clinics (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: At a meeting on 4th February with Deputy Joe McHugh and parents of children with rare diseases, I expressed my willingness to explore the possibility of Dublin-based consultants travelling to Letterkenny to host clinics for this cohort of patients. My Department has requested that the HSE engage with the appropriate consultants to assess the feasibility of this approach and report on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transport (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: With regard to the detailed query raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The National...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Supply Contamination (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: This is a matter for the HSE, therefore I have referred the question to the HSE for attention and direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Supply Contamination (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: This is a matter for the HSE, therefore I have referred the question to the HSE for attention and direct reply. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Professional Qualifications (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Psychologists working in the public health sector must have minimum qualifications set by the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. There are currently no such statutory restrictions on psychologists working in the private sector. The profession of psychologist is one of the 14 professions that have been designated for regulation under the Health and Social Care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As noted in my reply to the Deputy on 28 April 2015, in November 2014, the Acute Hospitals Division of the HSE requested the National Clinical Programme for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS Programme) to review the current configuration of PPCI services in Dublin, having regard to the requirement to deliver safe, sustainable services on the designated sites. The model of care produced by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Disputes (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The HSE has advised that following a national engagement with staff representatives, agreement was made by the HSE to pay unsocial hours to designated staff. This payment commenced on 1 January 2015 and no agreement was made in relation to arrears. Currently the issue of a backdated claim for arrears is being reviewed by the State’s industrial relations processes and the claim is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The new Lifetime Community Rating system, which came into operation on 1 May 2015, is designed to encourage people to join the private health insurance market at an earlier age and thus support the community rated market. Encouraging more people to join the market at younger ages helps spread the costs of older and less healthy people across the market, helping to support affordable premiums...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: In relation to the specific query raised, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Keeping Communities Safe is the outcome of a fire services review process undertaken in 2011/12, which considered the roles to be performed by fire authorities. It concluded that there are both ‘core’ and ‘discretionary’ fire service roles. The provision of specific assistance by fire service crews at the request of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) is regarded...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Reports (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: The publication date of the HIQA Report into maternity services at Portlaoise Hospital is a matter for the Board of the Authority. When the Report is published I expect the HSE to agree to fully implement all relevant recommendations contained in the Report.

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Properties (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I have no remit in this matter as responsibility for keeping land or property rodent free under the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 1919 lies with the owner or the occupier of the land, who in this case is Dublin City Council.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. The scheduling...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I would like to thank the Deputy for the question raised. As this is an operational matter, I have referred this question to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) for direct reply to the Deputy. If you have not received a reply from the NMBI within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (6 May 2015)

Leo Varadkar: I wish to thank the Deputy for the question raised. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland currently manage the Nursing Careers Centre and approve education programmes and sites where that education occurs. There are no plans to increase the number of college places for nurse education programmes at this time. There are 1570 places offered each year. The education programme...